...The lieutenant colonel's troops are all gifted with white clothes, white fashion, plain armor, and plain feathers, and they look upon them like tea.
Fifty more knights in white attire appeared in sight. They gathered together and escorted a veteran.
Upon seeing this, Lu Li and Lu Bu, who were standing on a high place overlooking the other side of the Fen River, immediately stopped talking, jumped on their horses, and greeted them personally.
The north bank of Fen River.
Ding Yuan glanced to his side and saw that there were more than ten thousand soldiers crossing the river. Even if the bridge was built in advance, it would still take two hours to reach the other side. However, he did not want to wait at all and greeted his guards:
"Quick, let's cross the ice."
In this way, fifty war horses galloped at the same time, their hooves stepping on the solid ice, bringing up strands of ice shavings.
The sound of hooves is rapid.
Because the north wind blew up snow and dust to block sight, ordinary soldiers could only see the scene within ten steps. Although the guards were brave, they had not understood the spirit of fighting and could only see up to thirty steps.
Therefore, they sent Ding Yuan off to each other carefully. Even if the lord said that Fengxian and Meng Ming were riding to meet each other and there was no need to do so, the leader still did not dare to relax his vigilance and order his warriors to disperse.
A horse was coming towards me.
Lu Li frowned, and before he could speak, the white knight shouted, "Who is coming?"
As they were in the same army and had fought side by side, Lu Li naturally would not blame the other party and responded loudly: "It's me! Pioneer Officer Lu Li."
"Lu Bu."
The Pathfinder Knight recognized the voices of the two of them, especially Lu Li. When they raided the Huns' rear camp that night, whenever the sound of "camp robber, Taiyuan Lu Mengming" sounded, there would be a shower of blood.
Therefore, the guard sheathed his sword, shouted and controlled the reins, turned the horse's head, and walked side by side with the two of them, "General, the Lord is on his way in a hurry. He will surely arrive soon."
"Maybe there was an accident along the way?"
"When we encounter enemy spies, we have captured them all."
Sure enough, the Yellow Turban thieves have penetrated throughout Bingzhou, and their spies are everywhere.
But the master is very experienced and will not leak the news, Lu Li thought to himself while riding on the horse.
Fenshui is thousands of miles long and is the second largest tributary of the Yellow River. This river alone is four to five miles wide.
However, in the blink of an eye, the two groups of people met.
Nothing easy to discuss.
During the time when Lu Bu was guarding Jinyang, he had figured out the enemy's situation, and would send messengers to inform Ding Yuan every day. As for the battle plan, he had already informed the generals beforehand.
Battle!
Concentrate the main force and engage in a decisive battle with the enemy near Wenshui. The outcome will be determined in one battle.
…
It's midnight, midnight.
Wenshui City is brightly lit.
The county government office where matters were discussed earlier was once again crowded with generals from various departments of the Yellow Turbans, but this time there were two new faces.
Since Du Quan and Zhou Tian came with 50,000 cavalry to support them, they were treated with courtesy by Guo Tai and sat near the top.
The war is imminent, and the atmosphere becomes extremely solemn.
Even if they had gathered together not long ago to defy the enemy generals, at this time, they had to stay alert and constantly remind themselves that the battlefield situation was changing rapidly and they must not be arrogant.
At this time, a handsome young man stepped out from the crowd, kneeled on one knee and said:
"Master, none of the scouts arranged by the general to be north of Wenshui have returned."
Hearing this, Guo Tai's face condensed, he nodded to show that he knew, and then turned his head to look at the person on the left.
"The general deserves to die!"
Seeing this, the man hurriedly knelt on the ground: "The scouts north of Fenshui have lost contact since yesterday. I thought it was due to heavy snow closing the mountains and delaying the journey..."
"There has been no snow in Bingzhou these days."
The Taoist sat next to Qu Shuai Guo Tai, his expression still calm, as if he was staying away from the incident.
Hearing this, Guo Tai's expression relaxed, and he actually smiled: "I don't know what trick old thief Ding Yuan used to make 20,000 infantry move thousands of miles in one day."
Seeing the master's appearance of being confident of victory, many timid people felt a little more at ease.
"Even if all the county soldiers returning from the north are riding thousands-mile horses, they must be exhausted now."
"And the old thief's move is undoubtedly to catch us off guard. He doesn't care whether his soldiers are capable of fighting."
After hearing this, Zhou Tian and Du Quan, who had led the guest troops to help in the battle, knew that this battle must be fought. After all, the Yellow Turban Army was too ambitious and wanted to overthrow the Han Dynasty in one fell swoop.
Judging from the current situation, wouldn't it be better to find a remote place to live in the wilderness?
You must know that after all kinds of natural and man-made disasters, the imperial court can no longer hold on. As long as it waits until the death of Emperor Ling next year and the young master is suspicious, he will go out to rebel again. Not to mention that he can conquer the Central Plains in one fell swoop and swallow up the two states. Disaster.
It's a pity that I can't persuade him at all.
As the saying goes, good words can't persuade a damned person, and mercy can't help but kill others. The two of them simply didn't open their mouths, as long as they got the Book of Heaven as they wished——
It would be good to go out of the city to fight in case of victory, but if they were defeated, they had already thought of their retreat in advance:
He immediately took 500 Xiongnu elites and some of the traitorous Han troops back to Shilou. If Ding originally wanted to kill them all, he would not rely on the city to hold on. This was completely a mantis' arm and used the Qiang territory to flee to Mobei. Annex some small tribes, strengthen your own strength, wait until the news has passed, and then return to the Central Plains to participate in the Hulao Pass to challenge Dong, and become the 19th prince.
Secret skill: Repeatedly jump horizontally!
Thinking of this, the two of them looked at each other, suppressed the excitement in their hearts, looked at their noses, and pretended to be wooden figures.
"The worst-case scenario right now is that the North and South armies have merged into one place."
"And Ding Yuan, the old thief, is very angry and is definitely not willing to let his soldiers rest. I'm afraid the raid will be tonight."
Guo Tai was worthy of being a veteran general on the battlefield because he knew the enemy's opportunities at the slightest hint. In a moment, he guessed that Ding Yuan had led his army across the Fen River, but the arrow was on the string and had to be fired.
Make decisions in the morning and serve soldiers in the evening.
Now, the 350,000 troops in the city are ready to go, and there is no room for any retreat.
Because of this, Guo Tai stood up and gave the last reassurance to his generals:
"A tired teacher will eventually lose his strength."
"The enemy troops are running for a long distance and are holding their breath in their hearts. Therefore, they will definitely explode with amazing combat power when they first come into contact, but as time goes by, they will definitely lose their stamina."
"We are lying in ambush on the south bank of Wenshui River, waiting for work and withstanding the early offensive."
Du Quan buried his head and curled his lips in disdain.
This is indeed true, but it is too optimistic.
Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, the two generals are each other's horns, and they are backed by tens of thousands of troops. What line of defense cannot be broken?
At three o'clock that night, Lu Li stood by the Wenshui River, with many thoughts in his heart:
When he first arrived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he was preoccupied with thinking about how to avoid the war and go to Luoyang to embrace the situation. But now he actively participated in the general trend and stirred up the situation.
While he was thinking about it, a voice sounded.
"Meng Ming, Wen Yuan and his adoptive father should have arrived at the scheduled crossing point and probably started crossing the river."
In the darkness without lights, a man holding Fang Tian's painted halberd walked out.
